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Tuesday, December 05, 2017

IPv6, next battlefield says Uwaje

The Vice Chairman of the Internet Protocol version Six
(IPv6 Council Nigeria), Chief Chris Uwaje has described the IPv6 as the next
frontier for global battlefield, especially for sustainable development and
wealth creation, reports ITRealms.

Uwaje made this observation during his presentation on
IPv6 Adoption: Imperative for a Nigeria Strategic Plan at the just ended AfriNIC
27 which held in Lagos, at the weekend.

Uwaje, who is a software engineer and former president,
Institute of Software Professionals of Nigeria (ISPON) also described IPv6 as
gradually becoming absolute prefix to the Internet.

He also beckoned on African nations to take advantage of
IPv6 opportunities by advancing their strategic plans.

“… I believe that very soon, IPv6 will become the absolute
Prefix to the Internet and African nations must take advantage of this awesome
opportunity by advancing IPv6 strategic plans,” he said.

According to him, the creation of new wealth in the world
resides in IPv6 and Internet of Thing (IoT) strategic intervention at
allcritical levels of development.

Africa, he said, stands the dawn of technology opportunity
and will benefit immensely, if government policy encourages the Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) industry and stakeholders to lead the advocacy
and promotion of IPv6 adoption as a gateway to sustainable development in the
continent.

“For this and other cogent reasons, a strategic plan is
imperative to improve IPv6 adoption in Nigeria and the Continent,” he said.

Uwaje further said that today, the world is
gradually living IPv4 behind and continues to register accelerated adoption and
growth in end-user IPv6 deployment in many developed countries.Chuks Egbune/GEE/ED, OpsITREALMS ... everything news digitally!